The window of tolerance after Cyclone Gabrielle is shifting. Here’s what it means for response and recovery. In Dan Siegel’s book, The Developing Mind, he describes how everyone has a range of intensities of emotional experience that they can comfortably experience, process and integrate. This is the ‘window of tolerance’, and it varies widely. For […]
“I think you’ve been really unlucky” My physio, Seth, shrugged. It was mid-decemnber, and I’d gone to the clinic because I had done something to my calf. A day later, by back had also seized up. Turns out I had injured a calf muscle – my left soleus. “You’re soleus starts to get loaded more […]
In this short article, I want to go over some of the principles of what helps in supporting people through emergency events and disaster, and what we need to bear in mind when dealing with the special case of first responders, and those in the emergency and welfare services who are tasked to serve and protect in times of crisis and distress.